Mega/Sega CD console prices

[bultje112]

I don't know. Paying an athlete one million Euros seems less ridiculous to me than charging 100 Euros for a console. Not only do owners of sports teams have a lot more income to play around with, they are spending this money on people who are there to help them make even more money. That one million Euro investment could help bring back much more than that. Personally, I agree with Speedy that 100 bucks for a Sega CD is pretty ridiculous. It would be more reasonable if it could play games on its own, but it can't. Part of my opinion is probably related to me always trying to find deals, so I find a lot of prices to be ridiculous. I don't see anywhere where he was trying to push his opinion on anyone or anything showing that he thought his opinion was fact though. He has his opinion just as you have yours.

do you realize almost all football clubs lose money hand over fist? and how would you know my income?

[Kanon]

I never said my opinion was fact. It's just my opinion that I think $100 for an add-on too much, especially when the base system can be bought for less than half of that.

Over 30 million Genesis/Mega Drives have been sold, not even 10% of that number of Sega CD were sold. When you think that, being optimistic, there might be just 1 Sega CD for every 10 Genesis, if you want one you are likely to be competing with 10 guys who also want one. And that's when how much you want it and how much more than they you are willing to spend comes into play.

Collectible scarcity is the key here. That's why even when you are willing to pay over $100, it's difficult to buy one.

Thinking that there were so few Sega CDs sold, and how more likely are to be to malfunction, I'm surprised the regular price is not 10 times as much as a Genesis 2 (it's getting close).

[chameleon]

real number is close to 40mill
Genesis (North America) - 20 million
Mega Drive (Japan) - 4.3 million
Mega Drive (Europe) - 6.9 million
Mega Drive (Brazil) - 2 million+
Genesis 3 (North America) - 2 million
Nomad (North America) - 1 million
Mega Drive (Other Regions) - 3.5 million

(segatastic)

and about 4+mill segacd/megacd

the 30mill number found on wikipedia comes from a chart from the May 1995 issue of Maniac Magazine showing console sales of 29 million at the fiscal end of 1994.

in western countries sega sold more 16bit consoles than nintendo

[IrishNinja]

fuckall does this have to do with football & income? cmon, let's get back to the condescending econ 101 arguments of supply & demand, never you mind artificial scarcity.

[Speedy]

what kind of ridiculous argumentation is that? please go on a lesson on economics because this sounds to ridiculous to be meant seriously.

All I stated was one of many reasons (albeit a smaller one) that I feel the system costs too much to me. You don't have to agree with it but I would hope that you could respect it without telling me to go take an economics lesson over an opinion.

Over 30 million Genesis/Mega Drives have been sold, not even 10% of that number of Sega CD were sold. When you think that, being optimistic, there might be just 1 Sega CD for every 10 Genesis, if you want one you are likely to be competing with 10 guys who also want one. And that's when how much you want it and how much more than they you are willing to spend comes into play.

Collectible scarcity is the key here. That's why even when you are willing to pay over $100, it's difficult to buy one.

Thinking that there were so few Sega CDs sold, and how more likely are to be to malfunction, I'm surprised the regular price is not 10 times as much as a Genesis 2 (it's getting close).

I didn't realize the numbers were that low, so thank you for the info! That would explain the price to some extent, but I still can't bring myself to spend $100 or more on one.

[bultje112]

All I stated was one of many reasons (albeit a smaller one) that I feel the system costs too much to me. You don't have to agree with it but I would hope that you could respect it without telling me to go take an economics lesson over an opinion.



I didn't realize the numbers were that low, so thank you for the info! That would explain the price to some extent, but I still can't bring myself to spend $100 or more on one.

if an opinion is based on knowing jackshit then yes you don't deserve respect for that. sega cd is obviously much RARER than a megadrive so the whole point of it being ridiculous that it is more expensive than the base system(besides where is it written that the base system should be more expensive anyway?) was the stupidest thing I've read all week.

[IrishNinja]

jesus, the man doesn't think the system's worth $100 to him, let it go

i give two tugs of a dead dog's cock that spider-man: web of fire is sooper rare & in demand from weirdos wanting a full 32X collection, the game's worth $3.25 boxed. amazon, ebay buy-it-nows, wonky pricesharting graphs, none of it is gonna change the fact that it's a $3.25 game

and i say that as a huge daredevil fan

[BubsyFan1]

do you realize almost all football clubs lose money hand over fist?

That doesn't really make a difference as there could be many reasons to spend on one player, that one player could make more of a difference as other players on the team, etc.

and how would you know my income?

I don't, never pretended I did, and even if I did, it wouldn't matter as your specific income is irrelevant when talking in the general sense.

I don't see the reason to throw a fit when other people have a differing opinion. I can see why people would think that the price is not ridiculous as that's what these are going for now and they're harder to find than other consoles. But I happen to find that an NES going for $60+ is ridiculous considering that they're all over the place. A Sega CD going for $100 isn't ridiculous compared to the NES price, but I think that an NES should never go for that much in the first place.

jesus, the man doesn't think the system's worth $100 to him, let it go

i give two tugs of a dead dog's cock that spider-man: web of fire is sooper rare & in demand from weirdos wanting a full 32X collection, the game's worth $3.25 boxed. amazon, ebay buy-it-nows, wonky pricesharting graphs, none of it is gonna change the fact that it's a $3.25 game

+1

[bultje112]

That doesn't really make a difference as there could be many reasons to spend on one player, that one player could make more of a difference as other players on the team, etc.



I don't, never pretended I did, and even if I did, it wouldn't matter as your specific income is irrelevant when talking in the general sense.

I don't see the reason to throw a fit when other people have a differing opinion. I can see why people would think that the price is not ridiculous as that's what these are going for now and they're harder to find than other consoles. But I happen to find that an NES going for $60+ is ridiculous considering that they're all over the place. A Sega CD going for $100 isn't ridiculous compared to the NES price, but I think that an NES should never go for that much in the first place.



+1

it does matter because you said football clubs have a lot more money to throw around than I as a person would have. suggesting you would know my income or to say 100 euros is a lot of money for me. I have less debt than almost all football clubs and income that 100 euros will not be missed

[sull56ivan2010]

Systems that actually work, people looking beyond the FMV games. James Rolfe is not a reason Sega CD stayed down in price.

[BubsyFan1]

it does matter because you said football clubs have a lot more money to throw around than I as a person would have. suggesting you would know my income or to say 100 euros is a lot of money for me. I have less debt than almost all football clubs and income that 100 euros will not be missed

That's actually not even close to what I said.

[bultje112]

I don't know. Paying an athlete one million Euros seems less ridiculous to me than charging 100 Euros for a console. Not only do owners of sports teams have a lot more income to play around with

here you said it

[ndiddy]

I don't know what you guys are on about with all the soccer references (guess it's a european thing or something). Anyway, a good tip for finding a cheap Sega CD is looking for a Model 2 that won't turn on on eBay. All you need to get one of those back into full working order is to solder on a new fuse (2.5A). I got lucky since my desk fan uses the same amperage fuse and came with a spare, so I just soldered wires directly to the fuse and put that in the Sega CD, so now I have a fully working one that I got for ~$40. I wouldn't recommend buying the Sega CD Model 1 due to the fact that it has the same capacitor issues as the Game Gear (while the M2 uses through-hole caps that are less likely to fail), and they have mechanical issues due to the tray loading drive.

[BubsyFan1]

I don't know. Paying an athlete one million Euros seems less ridiculous to me than charging 100 Euros for a console. Not only do owners of sports teams have a lot more income to play around with

here you said it

In that statement, I never mentioned football teams or singled you out specifically. I made a broad statement on purpose.

[bultje112]

Not only do owners of sports teams have a lot more income to play around with

how fucking hard is it to read? he you say sports team have more income to play with than consumers(me included). who says that?